Eñaut Izagirre: 'The impact of the glaciers is close than we think"
This paper-colloquium analysed the importance of mountain glaciers, with particular emphasis on their role as sensitive indicators of climate change. Furthermore, the United Nations has declared 2025 to be the International Year of Glaciers' Preservation; therefore, Eñaut Izagirre proposed to listeners a transnational collective journey: from the large frozen regions of Patagonia and Alaska, to the last small glaciers of the Pyrenees.
This paper-colloquium analysed the importance of mountain glaciers, with particular emphasis on their role as sensitive indicators of climate change. Furthermore, the United Nations has declared 2025 to be the International Year of Glaciers' Preservation; therefore, Eñaut Izagirre proposed to listeners a transnational collective journey: from the large frozen regions of Patagonia and Alaska, to the last small glaciers of the Pyrenees.COP29: A de minimis climate financing agreement in transition towards COP30 in Brazil
COP29, held in Azerbaijan in November 2024, managed to establish a new climate finance goal, as the main outcome, and to reach breakthroughs on the carbon markets, as María José Sanz, the Scientific Director of BC3, Basque Centre for Climate Change, explained. Furthermore, progress was made as far as possible on the Global Goal on Adaptation and on the Gender Agenda.
COP29, held in Azerbaijan in November 2024, managed to establish a new climate finance goal, as the main outcome, and to reach breakthroughs on the carbon markets, as María José Sanz, the Scientific Director of BC3, Basque Centre for Climate Change, explained. Furthermore, progress was made as far as possible on the Global Goal on Adaptation and on the Gender Agenda.Mónica Guxens: "Our cities need a radical change to protect children's brains"
The Catalan researcher gave her talk entitled Environmental Exposure and Brain Development: What we Know and Forthcoming Challenges in one of the Conversations Environmental Framework Program 2030, within the free open days organized by the Donostia Sustainability Forum.
The Catalan researcher gave her talk entitled Environmental Exposure and Brain Development: What we Know and Forthcoming Challenges in one of the Conversations Environmental Framework Program 2030, within the free open days organized by the Donostia Sustainability Forum.María José Sanz: "My assessment of COP28 is that the glass is half full"
The scientific director of the Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3) explained that the text approved there is equally good and bad for everyone.
The scientific director of the Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3) explained that the text approved there is equally good and bad for everyone.Solutions and hope for climate action
Matt McGrath is the BBC's environment correspondent, where he has worked since 1997. Between 2010 and 2011 he was a research fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) under the Knight Programme for Science Journalism, the most prestigious programme in the field. In 2019 he was awarded the first Biophilia Environmental Communication Award by the BBVA Foundation for his contribution to improving public understanding and awareness of environmental challenges. Caty Arévalo is a journalist and communicator specialising in science and the environment at the EFE news agency and has been reporting on the main national and international events in this field for more than two decades. Like McGrath, she was also a researcher at MIT in the Knight Programme for Science Journalism and at the Reuters Institute at Oxford University. In 2017 she was awarded the BBVA Foundation Prize for Biodiversity Conservation, in the category of Knowledge Dissemination and Awareness Raising in Biodiversity Conservation.
Matt McGrath is the BBC's environment correspondent, where he has worked since 1997. Between 2010 and 2011 he was a research fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) under the Knight Programme for Science Journalism, the most prestigious programme in the field. In 2019 he was awarded the first Biophilia Environmental Communication Award by the BBVA Foundation for his contribution to improving public understanding and awareness of environmental challenges. Caty Arévalo is a journalist and communicator specialising in science and the environment at the EFE news agency and has been reporting on the main national and international events in this field for more than two decades. Like McGrath, she was also a researcher at MIT in the Knight Programme for Science Journalism and at the Reuters Institute at Oxford University. In 2017 she was awarded the BBVA Foundation Prize for Biodiversity Conservation, in the category of Knowledge Dissemination and Awareness Raising in Biodiversity Conservation.We have participated in the design of the 2030 Environmental Framework Program
The Basque Government has approved the fifth Environmental Framework Program for 2030, which will guide environmental policies, following an extensive participation process involving all stakeholders and sectors of Basque society. The UPV/EHU Summer Courses Foundation (UIK) participated in the program's design phase and will collaborate in the implementation of the plan through the Donostia Sustainability Forum organized under the UIK umbrella.
The Basque Government has approved the fifth Environmental Framework Program for 2030, which will guide environmental policies, following an extensive participation process involving all stakeholders and sectors of Basque society. The UPV/EHU Summer Courses Foundation (UIK) participated in the program's design phase and will collaborate in the implementation of the plan through the Donostia Sustainability Forum organized under the UIK umbrella.The COP27 climate change summit. What's new?
COP27 was held in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, from 6th to 12th November 2022. It was the second best-attended summit after the Glasgow event in 2021 and the fifth to be held in Africa, one of the continents most vulnerable to the impact of climate change. DSF brought together a panel of experts to analyse the agreement reached in Egypt, from different points of view.
COP27 was held in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, from 6th to 12th November 2022. It was the second best-attended summit after the Glasgow event in 2021 and the fifth to be held in Africa, one of the continents most vulnerable to the impact of climate change. DSF brought together a panel of experts to analyse the agreement reached in Egypt, from different points of view.